The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
In port at Easter Island, the bucket-list move is Private Full-Island Moai & Sacred Sites Tour with Expert Guide. Below: 3 bucket-list things to do on a Easter Island port day — worth weighing against whatever your ship offers.
A private, accredited-guide journey through Easter Island's most legendary moai platforms — Ahu Tongariki, Rano Raraku, Anakena & more — at your own pace, with no crowds and deep Rapa Nui context.
We have not yet verified a bookable operator and price for
this one, so we are not quoting either.
Watch the 15 colossal moai of Ahu Tongariki glow in early-morning gold, then descend into the volcanic quarry where the ancestors were born — a small-group experience that is genuinely once-in-a-lifetime.
We have not yet verified a bookable operator and price for
this one, so we are not quoting either.
Hike the rim of Easter Island's most dramatic volcano to the cliff-edge village of Orongo — birthplace of the Birdman cult — with a private guide who brings the petroglyphs and the sheer 300-metre ocean drop to life.
Book itRano Kau: Trek Around the Crater Rim$175 per person
Sit down to an authentic umu (Polynesian earth oven) feast prepared by a Rapa Nui family, pairing fresh tuna ceviche, taro, and sweet potato with storytelling about the living culture that the moai were built to honour.
Book itSunrise on Ahu Tongariki Cultural Tour in Rapa Nui$54 per person
Easter Island's only palm-fringed white-sand beach doubles as an elite archaeological site — swim the crystalline Pacific beside restored red-topknotted moai in one of the world's most surreal beach afternoons.
We have not yet verified a bookable operator and price for
this one, so we are not quoting either.
Easter Island sits among the darkest skies on Earth — a private astronomer-led stargazing session connects the Polynesian star-navigation that found this impossible dot in the Pacific to the Milky Way blazing overhead.
Your day in Easter IslandNothing picked yet — tick what you fancy
$0for two, booked direct
Now plan the rest of it
You know what to do on the day. Here is the trip it belongs to —
each one opens as a whole plan, not a list: where to fly in, every port, what it runs.